SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 2, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Amazon Buys UpNext, Will We Soon See Kindle Maps?
Amazon has done a really interesting thing: it just bought mapping app UpNext. UpNext is a 3D mapping company that started on the PC in 2007 and more recently shifted its focus substantially to smartphones and the iPad. While UpNext has not received the same attention as other mapping startups the company has slowly built […]
- Google Search By Image Gets Smarter & Faster
Google announced that they have made a few improvements to Search by Image on Google Image search. The improvements include enhancing the best guesses, adding the knowledge graph to image results and adding fresher content to the image search results. Smart Best Guesses For Search By Image Now if you search by image, Google will […]
- Report: Google Makes Offer To Europeans To Prevent Antitrust Action
According to an article appearing in Bloomberg this morning, Google has complied with the European Commission’s July 2 deadline and made concessions to address it’s four antitrust “concerns.” Details of the offer and potential Google concessions weren’t revealed: Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt sent EU antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia a letter responding to the probe, […]
- 5 Ways To Fail Fast Using Paid Search
Let’s face it. Nobody ever learned a valuable lesson from success. Sure, succeeding feels great, and we can often look back at success and credit a number of meaningful contributing factors. I love it, we all do. In fact, our society and culture celebrate success to such a ridiculously high degree that we forget that […]
- You Know You’re An Enterprise SEO If…
What the hell is ‘Enterprise SEO’? Most people use the phrase when: Angling for a raise. Selling me their SEO widget. Trying to re-define their now-banned content spinning service. Those aren’t good criteria. So, I’m tackling the question: What is enterprise SEO? Are you an enterprise SEO professional? Here’s a test. Check off each item, […]
- Piper Jaffray “Street Test” Of Google vs. Siri Misses The Point
No sooner did I hit “publish” on my earlier post, Google’s “Voice Assistant” Not Quite Siri-Smart But Most People Won’t Notice, than people on Twitter started responding that I was out of my mind. A couple of people cited a Piper Jaffray study, published yesterday, comparing the accuracy and breadth of Siri “search results” vs. […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Lawsuit Accuses Google, YouTube Of Stealing Sharing Idea In Google+ Hangouts
- Euro 2012 Sets New Twitter Sports Activity Record
- Mobile Market Share: Microsoft Shows Gains, So Do Apple And Android
- Patent Chaos: Apple Blocks Galaxy Devices, Googlerola To Face Feds Over Licensing
- Following Facebook, Foursquare Becomes A “Platform” With “Connected Apps”
- AdWords Video For “All” — Getting Started
- Building And Supporting Online Communities Within Facebook And Twitter
- Twitter Tightens API Rules: LinkedIn Partnership Is First Casualty
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
Business Issues
- Yahoo’s Longtime Top Lawyer Mike Callahan Departs, AllThingsD
- Now on Identity, Tim Bray
- Apple to Pay Proview $60m to Settle iPad Trademark Case in China, thenextweb.com
- Ask.com Acquires nRelate, Ask.com Blog
- Chinese Baidu attempts to penetrate Vietnamese market | Chinese Baidu attempts to penetrate Vietnamese market, VietNamNet
- Ex-Google ‘Click-Fraud Czar’ Joins Google-Backed Security Startup, thenextweb.com
- Facebook to Remain on Nasdaq, Wall Street Journal
- Google’s Schmidt Says Facebook No Longer Poaching His Employees, BusinessWeek
- Our unique approach to research, Official Google Blog
Local, Maps & Mobile
- New 45° imagery available for 31 cities, Google LatLong
- Google Fixes Some Of The "We Currently Do Not Support The Location", Search Engine Roundtable
Link Building
- Reasons your Post-Penguin Link Building Sucks, John Andrews
- Have Lots Of Nofollows Linking To You? It Won’t Hurt You, Search Engine Roundtable
- Yahoo Directory Still Add SEO / Link Value?, Search Engine Roundtable
Paid Search & Contextual
- Google Censors Firearms Products in Shopping Search Results, outdoorhub.com
Searching
- Classifying Web Search Queries to Identify High Revenue Generating Customers, jimjansen.blogspot.com
- Google units conversion trick, SearchReSearch
SEM Industry
- Bing Caters to SEO Needs with Link Disavow, BruceClay.com
SEO & SEM
- 3 Web writing no-no’s to avoid, SEO Copywriting
- A Cheat Sheet for Optimizing Your WordPress Blog for Search Engines… Without Cheating, quicksprout.com
- Aleyda Solis On Spanish SEO, Networking Tools & International SEO Project Management, seoroi.com
- Bing Bing Search Quality Insights: Friends and Experts, Bing Search Blog
- Google: We Don’t Offer Phone Support For Webmasters, Search Engine Roundtable
- Googlebot Crawl Issue Identification Through Server Logs, SEOmoz
- Keyword Research – Beyond Adwords Exact Match, Search Engine People
- 4 Ways to use Bing Webmaster Tools for SEO, lunametrics.com
- Google Panda Update Up Close [Infographic], SEO.com
- Performance Based Pricing: A New Twist, RKG Blog
Social Media
- Euro 2012 Recap, Twitter Blog
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